bedript

[ME., also bedripe, bedrepe, etc., Hence-2. That which underlies anything else, as a foundation; bottom layer; lowest stratum. Everywhere life and energy, working on a gigantic scale, have plowed furrows into the institutional bed rock of Western Society. C. H. Shinn , Land Laws of Mining Districts, p. 44. bedroom (bed'röm), n. 1. Room in a bed; sleeping-room in bed. [In this sense properly with a hyphen.] Then by your side no bed - room me deny. Shak., M. N. D., ii. 3. 2. A room or apartment containing or intended to contain a bed; a sleeping-apartment. bedrop (bē-drop'), v. t.; pret. and pp. bedropped (sometimes bedropt ), ppr. bedropping. [ As men sene the dew bedroppe The leves and the flowers eke. Gower, Conf. Amant., iii. 254. 2. To cover, strew, or sprinkle with drops, or as if with drops; bespatter; bespangle. The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold. Pope , Windsor Forest, 1. 144. Rueful cheek, Pale and bedropped with ever-flowing tears. Words worth , Prelude, fx. bed-sacking (bed's aking), n . Canvas designed to be stretched on the framework of a bedstead to support the mattre es and bedclothes. bed-screw (bed's krö), n. 1. A bed-key or bed wrench.-2. Same as barrel - screw .